Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTMany people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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